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campaign -- >> under ronald reagan. >> reagan jocks program. >> reagan unemployment. >> the reagan linealliry. >> the ronald reagan reagan technique. >> president reagan. >> president reagan. >> i'm with president reagan. >> but it's not just mr. gingrich. this is what it's like to run a republican campaign. you have to incant reagan, reagan, reagan, you have to propose a policy named reagan. you should consider a pet or a child named reagan maybe. what's it like to see the republican party's decision to elevate ronald reagan as a saint when you are the former president who sat on the inaugural stage with reagan in 1980 and wrote this about him in your diary that day? on the day president reagan was inaugurated president carter wrote this, quote, "i consider him to have an affable and decent man. his life seems to be governed by a few anecdotes and vignettes that he has memorized. he doesn't seem to like to listen -- excuse me. he doesn't seem to listen when anybody talks to him." here's president jimmy carter today on the republican candidates, the religious right, president obama's re-elect
campaign -- >> under ronald reagan. >> reagan jocks program. >> reagan unemployment. >> the reagan linealliry. >> the ronald reagan reagan technique. >> president reagan. >> president reagan. >> i'm with president reagan. >> but it's not just mr. gingrich. this is what it's like to run a republican campaign. you have to incant reagan, reagan, reagan, you have to propose a policy named reagan. you should consider a pet or a child named reagan...
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ronald reagan had the same problem and handled it well. so will i. i want to bring in callan from "the washington post." you have a piece out saying trump's ill-advised claim. what do you think they have wrong here? >> i think the comparison to reagan could apply but i don't think he should want it to apply. saying there's equivalence here, he's sort of opening the door to the idea that maybe there is some problem with his mental health. keep in mind when the press in the 1980s was writing about president reagan, the question wasn't whether he was stable or intelligence but in his 70s perhaps he was losing hi memory and whether that might impair his effectiveness as president. as it turned out in 1994 he was diagnosed with alzheimer's disease. his son, ron reagan, said he felt as though his father was experiencing symptoms of that disease, at least early signs of the disease, while in office. in other words, those questions reporters were asking in the '80s were at least somewhat vindicated by a later diagnosis. if the president wants to cast the que
ronald reagan had the same problem and handled it well. so will i. i want to bring in callan from "the washington post." you have a piece out saying trump's ill-advised claim. what do you think they have wrong here? >> i think the comparison to reagan could apply but i don't think he should want it to apply. saying there's equivalence here, he's sort of opening the door to the idea that maybe there is some problem with his mental health. keep in mind when the press in the 1980s...
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ronald reagan directing . >> come here to this gate. mr. gorbechov, open this gate. mr. gorbechov, tear down this wall. >> 25 years ago today. doris, how important is to let presidents speak in their own voice and follow their instincts rather than having someone tell them what they can and cannot say. >> ronald reagan understanding that the kind of tone, that simple statement could become a shorthand for what eventually happened. you have a partnership between gorbechov and reagan. you have an arms race. the memory of all of us will be those simple words, "tear down this wall." presidents understand how to communicate to the community. we need to trust them more sometimes as they call them the pinstripe diplomats. >> that is why they got elected. we have seen the good and the bad. thank you very much. doris goodwin. thank you. we'll be right back. ♪ [music plays] ♪ [music plays] that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. particularly on capitol hill. that is where lawmakers and eric holder are sparring ov
ronald reagan directing . >> come here to this gate. mr. gorbechov, open this gate. mr. gorbechov, tear down this wall. >> 25 years ago today. doris, how important is to let presidents speak in their own voice and follow their instincts rather than having someone tell them what they can and cannot say. >> ronald reagan understanding that the kind of tone, that simple statement could become a shorthand for what eventually happened. you have a partnership between gorbechov and...
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my life has been so much in the publicsector, and if i say i worked with ronald reagan to develop a jobs plan that's demonstrable. and if i say we worked with president clintonnd we had unemployment come down to 4.2% and balancedthe budget for four straight years, and that's out in the open. governor romney should be held to the same test of bei out in e open. >> do you beeve governor omney is aood businessman and has been a good businessman, don't you? >> sure. i think he's a tough and smart businessman. and the question is what is his character and what w hi judgment? how does that relate to being president? are there legitimate questions that can be asd that ought to be answered by somebody who wants to be president. it's a question about how you approach people. how you approach circumstances, what values you bring to bear, and those are legitimate questions if all ofs are running for president and people should know it before they vote, because the presidency is such a central position in our society th you want to know what does ts person think, what are they doing, and what values
my life has been so much in the publicsector, and if i say i worked with ronald reagan to develop a jobs plan that's demonstrable. and if i say we worked with president clintonnd we had unemployment come down to 4.2% and balancedthe budget for four straight years, and that's out in the open. governor romney should be held to the same test of bei out in e open. >> do you beeve governor omney is aood businessman and has been a good businessman, don't you? >> sure. i think he's a tough...
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bush price and some for ronald reagan, some for george h.w. bush, for mitt romney, who are these people who hear him lying, know he's lying and still blindly defend him and attack all those who just show the tape and say, look, he's lying? >> you know, i watch these same people, many of whom i've respected, admired and thought had ining it rhad logic twist t with pretzel logic and juxtapose what he's saying now and they come up with some -- they always have an excuse why it's really not quite what it is or what it seemed. and i get into discussions of what trump trying to say. why not have trump explain it to the rest of us? can't he use his words and explain? he can't take responsibility with his own actions. what i believe is going to happen with a shutdown now, there won't be a negotiated settlement. he will either declare a national emergency and it will go to the courts, just like daca, or he'll find emergency funding designed for other emergencies like california. "the washington post" has identified $13.9 billion, more than twice of wha
bush price and some for ronald reagan, some for george h.w. bush, for mitt romney, who are these people who hear him lying, know he's lying and still blindly defend him and attack all those who just show the tape and say, look, he's lying? >> you know, i watch these same people, many of whom i've respected, admired and thought had ining it rhad logic twist t with pretzel logic and juxtapose what he's saying now and they come up with some -- they always have an excuse why it's really not...
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and ronald reagan recessed to appoint people. listen, the point is this, the president is entitled by our constitution to appoint people. the republicans have made it so that the national labor relations board, they didn't want it to even work, and he had to do recess appointments there. cordray. that's what this is all about. that's why it was such a good move by the president. i am confident that the president's recess appointments will be upheld in the courts. without any question, i think that will be the case. >> let me go through some issues if i can. >> let me ask you -- >> if i could say, the recess appointment is something that i came up with during the bush years, but the reason bush didn't do recess appointments during the time we had the recess is because i worked with him, and we gave president bush hundreds and hundreds of people. he didn't have to worry about recess appointments because we were working with him, and i believe the man that i believe now the president has the right to make appointment. >> you talk ab
and ronald reagan recessed to appoint people. listen, the point is this, the president is entitled by our constitution to appoint people. the republicans have made it so that the national labor relations board, they didn't want it to even work, and he had to do recess appointments there. cordray. that's what this is all about. that's why it was such a good move by the president. i am confident that the president's recess appointments will be upheld in the courts. without any question, i think...
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and then i see ronald reagan walking down the path. so he's on the right path. how do you find another reagan? how do you find someone who can win and not only win but win really big the second term and lead the country with a positive legacy for having been president? >> you know, reagan wasn't reagan as you remember very well even in the summer of 1980. a lot of people inside the carter white house and most people in the media didn't think reagan had a shot of being elected anything. but once he got into office, it's great talking to you about this because you were there and saw it up close. ronald reagan was extraordinarily conservative. tip o'neill and he couldn't be further apart. yet reagan figured day in and day out how to either fight tip o'neill and the democratic congress or strike deals when he knew he could get his 80% but had to give the 20% to the other side. he was pragmatic and he always found the middle of the political system. there was this great line from "the triumph of politics" from way back in the early '80s where reagan turned to his adv
and then i see ronald reagan walking down the path. so he's on the right path. how do you find another reagan? how do you find someone who can win and not only win but win really big the second term and lead the country with a positive legacy for having been president? >> you know, reagan wasn't reagan as you remember very well even in the summer of 1980. a lot of people inside the carter white house and most people in the media didn't think reagan had a shot of being elected anything....
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he had a partner with ronald reagan. we shouldn't forget how much resistance there was within reagan's own ranks with engaging with this soviet leader. there was a lot of suspicion whether to trust mikhail gorbachev. and as it was mentioned in her piece, nancy reagan was one of the trusted advisers. i think her role should not be overlooked here. and just one more thing, george h.w. bush managed to land a plane with the dissolution of the soviet union, with the end of the cold war. that was a treacherous period and he handled with enormous deftness. i'd be curious to hear what my partner david ignatius has to say with the series of gorbachev that has enabled him to do the legacy that he's left. david? >> so, if i can respond to that, susan, i do think that george h.w. bush was a master at playing out the end game with the soviet union was crumbling. all of the weakness that gorbachev had seen coming down around him. but to keep that debris from causing enormous damage. to see the change all the way through that without i
he had a partner with ronald reagan. we shouldn't forget how much resistance there was within reagan's own ranks with engaging with this soviet leader. there was a lot of suspicion whether to trust mikhail gorbachev. and as it was mentioned in her piece, nancy reagan was one of the trusted advisers. i think her role should not be overlooked here. and just one more thing, george h.w. bush managed to land a plane with the dissolution of the soviet union, with the end of the cold war. that was a...
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he's an emotional -- instincts of ronald reagan. he's an emotional manna smart m man. >> why president trump decided to carry out thursday's airstrikes. i want to bring in our strategists. so fire a missile and media and mccain and lindsey graham are going to love you. that makes you presidential. the comparison to ronald reagan, is there any truth to that? >> not that i can see. it's tragically ironic that some of the president's biggest critics from the right, senator mccain, senator graham are now praising him after launching 50 cruise missiles. put aside the foreign policy, the military action for one second, whether you're dealing with syria, whether you're dealing with russia, dealing with these kind of problems requires an actual strategy. firing missiles is not a strategy. this is the part where i think when these events happen, and we've seen this in the past under other administrations as well, republican, democrat, there's a tendency, i think, for everyone to immediately rally. what they should be rallying around is askin
he's an emotional -- instincts of ronald reagan. he's an emotional manna smart m man. >> why president trump decided to carry out thursday's airstrikes. i want to bring in our strategists. so fire a missile and media and mccain and lindsey graham are going to love you. that makes you presidential. the comparison to ronald reagan, is there any truth to that? >> not that i can see. it's tragically ironic that some of the president's biggest critics from the right, senator mccain,...
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ronald reagan -- i brought ronald reagan up earlier. ronald reagan was not seen as somebody that had progressive views on race. in fact, if i -- if my memory serves me well, he was even opposed to the martin luther king holiday. i'm sure i'm going to get 1,000 e-mails from conservative in two seconds telling me that's not true, but i remember ronald reagan saying i think -- i think the kindest way i can say this about a guy that i liked in many aspects is if i don't -- if i remember it correctly, he had some pretty back ward thinking views about martin luther king and at times race and at times ending a apartheid in south africa, and yet america moved forward during reagan's era and reagan never as mike barnacle just said, presidents didn't usually pick at that scab of race the way donald trump does. i just wonder, the fact that he's talking this way openly about race in such an insensitive way, does that not allow us as a nation to have these conversations out in the open, to confront these challenges head on and to drive a stake throu
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and margaret thatcher and ronald reagan were able to do that. and that's why they, you know, they would like to see them on, both of them on mt. rushmore. i think if they could carve her in there, they would want that as well. what's interesting to any, though, is that in some ways, both thatcher and reagan on the larger issue of the day, which was the cold war, not, you know, taxes and budgets in britain. >> domestic policy. >> domestic policy. >> the larger issue of the day, she was not a radical knneocon, not a super hardliner. she met gorbachev before ronald reagan did. >> she did. >> her line upon meeting him was, i can do business with this man. which meant that it was time to open a whole new era in detaunt and move toward the end of the cold war in a peaceful way. >> incredible. >> she did often brandish the west's nuclear capability in ways that were sometimes a little bit frightening. but at the end of the day, we managed to end that cold war without people dying. which i think is something that we take for granted too much nowadays. >
and margaret thatcher and ronald reagan were able to do that. and that's why they, you know, they would like to see them on, both of them on mt. rushmore. i think if they could carve her in there, they would want that as well. what's interesting to any, though, is that in some ways, both thatcher and reagan on the larger issue of the day, which was the cold war, not, you know, taxes and budgets in britain. >> domestic policy. >> domestic policy. >> the larger issue of the day,...
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that's going to be next week on ronald reagan's birthday, rand paul. but, you know, it's fitting, because we're coming up on reagan's birthday. and did you hear about the horrible obama muslim marxist thing about his kenyan home? did you hear? >> this is one wall that probably shouldn't be torn down. this apartment building used to be the home of a young ronald reagan. it was denied landmark status, and the university of chicago is ready to demolish it. the university is also trying to become the site of president obama's presidential library. that's drawing strong concerns the university might turn president reagan's former house into a parking lot for an obama library. >> did you hear about that? chicago close ties with the obamas, all of them, tearing down ronald reagan's boyhood home in order to make a parking lot for barack obama's presidential library. did you hear? did you hear? see, here it is on drudge. reagan's home could become parking lot for obama library. here it is on something called newsmax. reagan's childhood home to become parking lo
that's going to be next week on ronald reagan's birthday, rand paul. but, you know, it's fitting, because we're coming up on reagan's birthday. and did you hear about the horrible obama muslim marxist thing about his kenyan home? did you hear? >> this is one wall that probably shouldn't be torn down. this apartment building used to be the home of a young ronald reagan. it was denied landmark status, and the university of chicago is ready to demolish it. the university is also trying to...
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had a president to be proud of since ronald reagan. but in general rand paul is working with the sowing of deep fear of american government. you hear that a lot when you listen to the thoughts in the conservative bubble, that you can't trust government, obama should be in prison, he's hollowing out the military, the country is going down the tubes. they weren't this fearful and critical of the government when it was bush going into a country that did not have wmd but now we must be so fearful. make sure we protect every american who is in a cafe anywhere. how elitist do they think we are that we're all living in cafes? >> but nia-malika, rush limbaugh has described rand paul, and i'm quoting rush limbaugh, as a hero to a lot of people today. if rush limbaugh called you heroic, would you seek immediate medical attention? >> well, i will say this about ron paul and i think rand paul is a more realistic version of ron paul. he was able to draw very enthusiastic crowds, very diverse crowds and young crowds, and i think a rand paul will be
had a president to be proud of since ronald reagan. but in general rand paul is working with the sowing of deep fear of american government. you hear that a lot when you listen to the thoughts in the conservative bubble, that you can't trust government, obama should be in prison, he's hollowing out the military, the country is going down the tubes. they weren't this fearful and critical of the government when it was bush going into a country that did not have wmd but now we must be so fearful....
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one was when he said that we will pass the biggest tax cut since ronald reagan. this is trumpian in its promises, but they will have -- tax reform won't be easy. i mean, they still -- there is no agreement on how to pay for these large corporate and individual tax cuts. house leadership wants to introduce what is called the border adjustment tax which would raise about a trillion dollars over ten years. but there are people including t gary cohen who don't like that idea and a lot of republicans who don't like it. so there is no agreement on how to pay for this massive tax did you tell. and gary cohen has said publicly that it has to be revenue neutral which means that it can't add to the deficit. now, i don't know how they will do this and i don't think republicans do either. >> and the question really is the president ran on being able to break the deadlock in washington to send the do nothing congress if you like. the question, is he going to be able to deliver on that promise. >> again, this is what he learned yesterday is that it's not as ease eas easy as ma
one was when he said that we will pass the biggest tax cut since ronald reagan. this is trumpian in its promises, but they will have -- tax reform won't be easy. i mean, they still -- there is no agreement on how to pay for these large corporate and individual tax cuts. house leadership wants to introduce what is called the border adjustment tax which would raise about a trillion dollars over ten years. but there are people including t gary cohen who don't like that idea and a lot of...
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ronald reagan wouldn't want much to do with donald trump right now. the fact is, this party, ever since trump started his ascent, or decent, down the escalator, whatever you want to look at it, and the party went along with him, everyone said, this fever will break at some point. we are seven years in. the candidates are getting more, and more, trumpy. the big theme of the book here, is it didn't have to be this way. there were many off-ramps, many opportunities for courage for republicans, whether it is kevin mccarthy, or mitch mcconnell, or lindsey graham, or marco rubio, or whoever, to actually go a different direction. yet, donald trump seems incapable of being rehabilitated of everything from starting an insurrection, or fomenting an insurrection, to, actual, defeat in his reelection campaign. it keeps going, eric regions, herschel walker, all seemed to be the immediate future of the party. >> we talked about mitch mcconnell, and kevin mccarthy, they contend the insurrection immediately, said trump was responsible. mitch mcconnell, reportedly, an
ronald reagan wouldn't want much to do with donald trump right now. the fact is, this party, ever since trump started his ascent, or decent, down the escalator, whatever you want to look at it, and the party went along with him, everyone said, this fever will break at some point. we are seven years in. the candidates are getting more, and more, trumpy. the big theme of the book here, is it didn't have to be this way. there were many off-ramps, many opportunities for courage for republicans,...
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reagan. there are two parties in america >> well, i think, brian, the issue is not particularly whether president trump is racist or not, demonstrated of clear evidence that president trump engaging in racist remarks. the broader issue is silence of his party and what race has meant to the rise of the republican party since ronald reagan. there are two parties in america that's divided and polarized and based on race. one is the party of the aging whites, that's uncomfortable of the changing pace of our society, the divesification of society. the problem is where is the party that's likely to say the party of lincoln. the last 40 years trying to gain advantage by courting this element on martin luther king's day or any other day. >> to our audience on our apologies of our early conversation got away from us. we asked both of these gentlemen to come back to continue the conversation that we have started tonight. we'll come back and have you on again very soon. as we will, jonathan, and thank y
reagan. there are two parties in america >> well, i think, brian, the issue is not particularly whether president trump is racist or not, demonstrated of clear evidence that president trump engaging in racist remarks. the broader issue is silence of his party and what race has meant to the rise of the republican party since ronald reagan. there are two parties in america that's divided and polarized and based on race. one is the party of the aging whites, that's uncomfortable of the...
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ronald reagan sat down wi tip o'neill to solve problems. bill cnton sat down wit newt gingrich to balance the budget and end welfare as we know it. this whole speech is about pitting one group of americans against the other. and his policies are t biggest threat to the hard-working americans. yore a union guy, the pipeline would be good for you because it would create 20,000 jobs. the nlrb in hands of this administration, almost cost a fality in south carolina that would have cost 10,000 hard-working soutcarolinians eir jobs because of union politics. the environmental policies of this administration make it very hard to create a job. the speech, the speech wasn't about his successes. it's abou hard-working americans in class warfare. and i ask the question again, mr. president, what is a fair share? pick a number. tell me how much you want to take in taxes at the t ra. pick a number a let's see if it works. >> senator durbin? it's all politi. >> what is the nunuer? >> david, let me just say that the president has tried for three straight y
ronald reagan sat down wi tip o'neill to solve problems. bill cnton sat down wit newt gingrich to balance the budget and end welfare as we know it. this whole speech is about pitting one group of americans against the other. and his policies are t biggest threat to the hard-working americans. yore a union guy, the pipeline would be good for you because it would create 20,000 jobs. the nlrb in hands of this administration, almost cost a fality in south carolina that would have cost 10,000...
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and all i can say about this president, he has the instincts of ronald reagan in many ways. he's an emotional man, but he's also a very smart man. i think he feels that he did the right thing by those children. >> joining me now is democratic congressman john delaney. thank you for your time this afternoon. >> thanks for having me, sheinelle. >> first your reaction to that praise, comparing him to ronald reagan. >> well, look, i think it's probably early to start comparing president trump to president reagan, but i think senator graham is right. i think president trump's decision to launch this strike was largely a very personal, emotional decision that was obviously informed by what he saw in those horrific images coming out of that chemical attack. this is a very different position that he's now taking with syria than he had in the past. so he did make a very dramatic kind of pivot, if you will, toward syria. it had to be based, you know, based on his reaction from seeing what unfolded and also from the advice of his key advisers. so i think it's probably a little early to
and all i can say about this president, he has the instincts of ronald reagan in many ways. he's an emotional man, but he's also a very smart man. i think he feels that he did the right thing by those children. >> joining me now is democratic congressman john delaney. thank you for your time this afternoon. >> thanks for having me, sheinelle. >> first your reaction to that praise, comparing him to ronald reagan. >> well, look, i think it's probably early to start...
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ronald reagan from the oval office 30 years ago today. still with us, the historian and author, john meacham. there is the current occupant of the white house, his address from the oval office this week. john, there were democrats that election night when jimmy carter lost in tears because they thought that our country was ruined and we were going to be the laughing stock of the world. then came ronald reagan, and in a country where unless you're a scallywag, we tend to look affectionately back on our former presidents. the question is to you, did people in real-time look at this guy, his farewell address and say, you know what, that's just a shining example of what we want our president and our presidency to be? or has it been fuzzed up in history along the way? >> well, there's a difference between something being fuzzed up and our seeing it more clearly, and i think that a lot of times with presidents we had this with truman, we had this with george w. bush, mountains tend to get a little bit larger and we judge them more effectively t
ronald reagan from the oval office 30 years ago today. still with us, the historian and author, john meacham. there is the current occupant of the white house, his address from the oval office this week. john, there were democrats that election night when jimmy carter lost in tears because they thought that our country was ruined and we were going to be the laughing stock of the world. then came ronald reagan, and in a country where unless you're a scallywag, we tend to look affectionately back...
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reagan, but there's also, you know, the ronald reagan florida turnpike and the ronald reagan minuteman missile site in cooperstown, north carolina. there's ronald reagan elementary schools and middle schools, everywhere from idaho to yuma, arizona, to grand prairie, texas. there's everything from the existing mt. reagan in new hampshire to a ronald reagan bust that is apparently inside a mcdonald's in tuscaloosa, alabama. it all counts. it's all on the reagan legacy project clickable map. even the one in the mcdonald's. conservative activists trying to pump up ronald reagan's legacy have proposed that ronald reagan displace ulysses s. grant on the $50 bill. at one time, they even proposed that ronald reagan be put on the dime. but that might be a little bit of a hard sell, since the person who's on the dime right now is fdr and he does have his fans that sort of, i think, anticipated backlash led to their novel proposal that the united states should have two different kinds of dimes, some with fdr in them, some with ronald reagan on them. it's one thing to have a quarter for every stat
reagan, but there's also, you know, the ronald reagan florida turnpike and the ronald reagan minuteman missile site in cooperstown, north carolina. there's ronald reagan elementary schools and middle schools, everywhere from idaho to yuma, arizona, to grand prairie, texas. there's everything from the existing mt. reagan in new hampshire to a ronald reagan bust that is apparently inside a mcdonald's in tuscaloosa, alabama. it all counts. it's all on the reagan legacy project clickable map. even...
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and so when ronald reagan found his soulmate in lady thatcher, that really made a huge difference in terms of u.s./british relations and the fight against communism. but timely, the reason why in america we respected her is because she also moderated ronald reagan on star wars, the big anti-missile program that he was determined to push, even though the gorbachev said it would end arms control. it was margaret thatcher who forced him to prohibit that system and moderated some of the views of his extreme advisers. and so the combination of peace through strength but negotiation was something that she embodied and she and reagan did so well. >> thomas, to jamie's point, margaret thatcher allowed the americans to place cruise missiles on uk soil for the first time for that very purpose. and that's why the americans perspective on margaret thatcher, baroness thatcher is so warm because on foreign policy, she was extremely impressive. jamie is being slightly polite and modest. he was actually working with vice president joe biden who then was a senator. at the time when the berlin wall ca
and so when ronald reagan found his soulmate in lady thatcher, that really made a huge difference in terms of u.s./british relations and the fight against communism. but timely, the reason why in america we respected her is because she also moderated ronald reagan on star wars, the big anti-missile program that he was determined to push, even though the gorbachev said it would end arms control. it was margaret thatcher who forced him to prohibit that system and moderated some of the views of...
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take it from ronald reagan about whom he's tweeted a fake meme that says ronald reagan said that he met donald trump and was going to be president. i mean, it's just -- you know, it's the truman show. >> a complete lie. >> it's just madness, it's madness. and so reagan said, you know, you can be born -- you have to be born in france to be a frenchmen. you have to be born in britain to be an englishman, but you don't have to be born here to be an american. >> good thing for donald trump because his mother was not born here. his father was the son of german immigrants. and it's so funny, some of these people that donald trump attacked for coming from other countries actually had parents in america more than donald trump did. but anyway, of course why argue facts with donald trump? that's not what this is about. this is donald trump. of course it's not a dog whistle, it's a bull horn to his most bigoted, racist supporters and we'll just see what happens. so president trump meant most of the day doubling down on those tweets over the weekend. attacking a group of progressive women for being
take it from ronald reagan about whom he's tweeted a fake meme that says ronald reagan said that he met donald trump and was going to be president. i mean, it's just -- you know, it's the truman show. >> a complete lie. >> it's just madness, it's madness. and so reagan said, you know, you can be born -- you have to be born in france to be a frenchmen. you have to be born in britain to be an englishman, but you don't have to be born here to be an american. >> good thing for...
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that's ronald reagan. take a trip back to the start of the 1980s with a scandal during the reagan administration. the iran scandal. which feels lost to history. leftists had just taken over the government in nicaragua. a coalition of right wing rebels wanted to overthrow the left wing and ronald reagan who was staunchly anti-communist was exceedingly supportive of the contra's efforts. referring to them to the moral equivalent of the founding fathers. the contras became known for brutal tactics including executions of other soldiers. congress took issue with reagan backing the contras and passed a series of amendments to stop from funding them. it was illegal to fund them. meanwhile in iran the country had been taken over by religious hardliners was being led by ayatollah komeni. dozens were held hostage in tehran starting in 1979. that event is what destroyed diplomatic relations between our countries and that extends to this day. yet iran in 1985 turned to the united states in its help for the war agains
that's ronald reagan. take a trip back to the start of the 1980s with a scandal during the reagan administration. the iran scandal. which feels lost to history. leftists had just taken over the government in nicaragua. a coalition of right wing rebels wanted to overthrow the left wing and ronald reagan who was staunchly anti-communist was exceedingly supportive of the contra's efforts. referring to them to the moral equivalent of the founding fathers. the contras became known for brutal tactics...
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a president ronald reagan or maybe even a governor ronald reagan. >> so help you, god. >> i congratulate you, sir. >> do you think you're more self-confident? >> yes. because i think maybe more people like me. >> and it's easier to be a little more -- >> i'm -- if i think people like me, i'm better. >> you're willing to open up? >> yeah. >> back in 1981, it was the press that opened up, hitting mrs. reagan with a barrage of criticism. one of the big issues, the first lady spent more than $800,000, much contributed by friends, fixing up the white house. the problem was largely one of timing. mrs. reagan started her lavish redecoration just as her husband started cutting programs for the poor. and just as the country started sliding into recession. for many people, this contrast made the first lady look frivolous. or even worse, insensitive. and there was mrs. reagan's taste for $5,000 designer dresses which caused some to start calling her queenancy. within months she had grown sensitive about even mentioning her clothes within range of reporters. >> bill blass i wore last night for mrs.
a president ronald reagan or maybe even a governor ronald reagan. >> so help you, god. >> i congratulate you, sir. >> do you think you're more self-confident? >> yes. because i think maybe more people like me. >> and it's easier to be a little more -- >> i'm -- if i think people like me, i'm better. >> you're willing to open up? >> yeah. >> back in 1981, it was the press that opened up, hitting mrs. reagan with a barrage of criticism. one of...
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the reagan letters. >> hello, everyone. what made ronald reagan special? his optimism, confidence, love of country? to nancy reagan, his wife and constant come panian for more than half a century what made him special was his devotion and their boundless love for each other. romance may not be what we associate with politics or even when the real life world of hollywood the reagans once inhabited but the bond between ronald and nancy reagan was undeniable. their friends saw it and the country saw it during their eight years as america's first couple. she protected him, advised him, worried about him, and he returned that devotion in full measure, something made clear by the publication of a treasure troef of love letters he wrote to her. letters, notes, cards, telegrams, dating back almost to when they first met and continuing uninterrupted for decades. reagan's personality shines through in these letters, addressing my darling wife, glamour puss. nancy pants, my beloved first lady and signed first papa, your roommate, your husband. messages from the heart
the reagan letters. >> hello, everyone. what made ronald reagan special? his optimism, confidence, love of country? to nancy reagan, his wife and constant come panian for more than half a century what made him special was his devotion and their boundless love for each other. romance may not be what we associate with politics or even when the real life world of hollywood the reagans once inhabited but the bond between ronald and nancy reagan was undeniable. their friends saw it and the...
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but i think there is a vital role, just as ronald reagan did. when ronald reagan called the soviet union an evil empire, when he stood in front of the brandenburg gate and said "mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall," those words changed the course of history. the united states has to defend our values. >> which brings us today. rand paul unloaded on cruz. here is what rand paul wrote. quote, every republican likes to think he or she is the next ronald reagan. some would say this do so for their lack of own ideas and agenda. i remind anyone who thinks we will win elections by trashing previously republican nominees or holding one's self out as a paragon in the mold of reagan that splintering the party is not the route to victory. well said. jonathan capehart, an opinion writer with "the washington post," and joy reid is the host of "the reid report" on msnbc. jonathan, let me propose something. i don't think ronald reagan in a mill years would have attacked iraq. he was not an adventurist in foreign policy. he was an anti-communist pure and simple.
but i think there is a vital role, just as ronald reagan did. when ronald reagan called the soviet union an evil empire, when he stood in front of the brandenburg gate and said "mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall," those words changed the course of history. the united states has to defend our values. >> which brings us today. rand paul unloaded on cruz. here is what rand paul wrote. quote, every republican likes to think he or she is the next ronald reagan. some would say this...
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bush or ronald reagan, their parties gloating this way -- >> keep going. you have 40 more to go. >> jimmy carter. >> i've got 40 more to go. this is, again, so unbecoming and it proves what day traders they all are. i have to say classless in this respect that they're acting like it's a high school football game when, in fact, we are talking about a deciding vote on the u.s. supreme court. no dignity and not at all. >> and it's the great tell of the process, as you point out a second ago. on the one hand when it serves their purposes they argue that this is about justices is blind, this is about qualifications and then when it serves their purposes five seconds later you get the dancing around, you get that a historical and ill informed and worst nightmare reaction from the white house press secretary actually putting the court under trump and putting these justices in these boxes, which you had just been saying wasn't really what this was about. so it's the -- i guess we should be shocked, shocked that there's partisanship in washington, but what we can b
bush or ronald reagan, their parties gloating this way -- >> keep going. you have 40 more to go. >> jimmy carter. >> i've got 40 more to go. this is, again, so unbecoming and it proves what day traders they all are. i have to say classless in this respect that they're acting like it's a high school football game when, in fact, we are talking about a deciding vote on the u.s. supreme court. no dignity and not at all. >> and it's the great tell of the process, as you point...
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obama needs to be ronald reagan. would i vote for revenues, including tax rate hikes, even though i don't like them to save the country from becoming greece but i'm not going to set aside the 1.2 trillion in cuts. any hope of going over the fiscal cliff must start in the senate. not one democrat would support the idea that we could protect 99% of americans from a tax increase. boehner's plan b i thought made as soon as. to my republican kcolleagues, te the ronald reagan model is if you get 80% of what you want, that's a good day. i lime simpson-bowles. the president is going to get tax rate hikes. to my republican colleagues, if we can protect 99% of the public from a tax hike that, is not a tax increase in my book. chuck, maybe you and me and some other people in the senate can find a way to find this on the short term but on the long term there's not going to be a deal any time soon. >> you think we're going to go over the cliff? >> i think we're going to fall out of the fiscal tree. the big chance at the big deal
obama needs to be ronald reagan. would i vote for revenues, including tax rate hikes, even though i don't like them to save the country from becoming greece but i'm not going to set aside the 1.2 trillion in cuts. any hope of going over the fiscal cliff must start in the senate. not one democrat would support the idea that we could protect 99% of americans from a tax increase. boehner's plan b i thought made as soon as. to my republican kcolleagues, te the ronald reagan model is if you get 80%...
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nancy reagan has often said that her life began with ronald reagan. she was in her mid-20s when they met in 1949. he was then in his late 30s and newly divorced. reagan's first wife was fellow actor jane wyman. they married in 1940 and stayed together for eight years, but there's no question that nancy davis who became the second mrs. reagan was the love of ronald reagan's life. that was evident in every letter he wrote to her. in our conversation, i asked mrs. reagan if she shared his gift for writing. what about the letters she wrote to him? >> i found some of the letters in his desk, but i didn't write him the way that he wrote me. i couldn't. i mean, i just couldn't do it. >> there is something wonderful about getting a letter and opening it and feeling the feel of the paper. >> yep. >> in your fingers and seeing someone's handwriting, which makes it so meaningful and personal obviously. >> and warmer, yes. oh, yes. >> to my wife, on christmas day, 1978. it's amazing what that four letter word wife covers when it's applied to you. it means a compa
nancy reagan has often said that her life began with ronald reagan. she was in her mid-20s when they met in 1949. he was then in his late 30s and newly divorced. reagan's first wife was fellow actor jane wyman. they married in 1940 and stayed together for eight years, but there's no question that nancy davis who became the second mrs. reagan was the love of ronald reagan's life. that was evident in every letter he wrote to her. in our conversation, i asked mrs. reagan if she shared his gift for...
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and people like the fact that ronald reagan told it like it was. i was an early reagan supporter here in 1976. i'm proud of the leadership that he provided for this country under the malaise that we were under back under jimmy carter, and we had a president that brought america back and rebuilt our economy, and we need a president that has that kind of courage, not somebody that's going to divide the american people one against the other. we need to reduce the tax and regulatory burden. when i was governor before canada, the canadian dollar was worth 65 cents to the american dollar and we were able to bring canadian companies here. now the canadian dollar -- >> let me get -- >> -- their financial system is stronger. >> good points, all. i will say that i think governor romney lost a lot more than 10,000 bucks last night and newt gingrich won a lot. why hasn't mitt romney bumped above 25% in these polls? i think we saw it last night. voters think this country is in huge trouble, republicans do, and they want somebody to bring big change. and mitt ro
and people like the fact that ronald reagan told it like it was. i was an early reagan supporter here in 1976. i'm proud of the leadership that he provided for this country under the malaise that we were under back under jimmy carter, and we had a president that brought america back and rebuilt our economy, and we need a president that has that kind of courage, not somebody that's going to divide the american people one against the other. we need to reduce the tax and regulatory burden. when i...
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ronald reagan was 94 years old. she died from congestive heart failure. nbc's lester holt looks at the life of the former first lady. nancy davis met ronald reagan on the mgm lot in 1949. he was already a star. though she had her own hollywood dreams she said she found her greatest role as his wife. >> i think i was born to be married. i was the happiest girl in the world when i became we. >> reporter: they married in 1952, a simple ceremony and appeared together in "hellcats of the navy." >> you knew better. >> how could i know? did you give me a post dated check? >> reporter: from them on by her own description her life was devoted to her husband as mother to their two children and as step mother to his two children by former wife then came politics and her long career as a first lady. first in california to governor ronald reagan in 1966. >> what is ronnie's greatest asset for the women voters? >> just being ronnie, i guess. >> reporter: then to president reagan in 1980. after the president was shot by a would-be
ronald reagan was 94 years old. she died from congestive heart failure. nbc's lester holt looks at the life of the former first lady. nancy davis met ronald reagan on the mgm lot in 1949. he was already a star. though she had her own hollywood dreams she said she found her greatest role as his wife. >> i think i was born to be married. i was the happiest girl in the world when i became we. >> reporter: they married in 1952, a simple ceremony and appeared together in "hellcats...
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bush to escape ronald reagan's shadow? we remember the "newsweek" cover talking about the win factor. i remember people saying george h.w. bush reminds every woman of her first husband. the insults became so bad that somebody had to actually write an op-ed that i still remember, my god 40 years, 30 years later called the george bush that i know. telling the story of how bush alone with a west texas contributor who made a racial slur when nobody else was watching and he desperately needed the man's money to win the 1970 senate campaign immediately got up and he said this meet is over, walked out and drove back home. or, of course, what he did in the war, that this was no wimp, this was a strong man. but that shadow of reagan hung over him not just in 1989 but really for many throughout his entire presidency. >> yeah, that's so true. i think it was a bit of a harassment to him and he had this funny chafing feeling where personally he liked reagan so much. he and reagan had worked together for eight years and seen each other
bush to escape ronald reagan's shadow? we remember the "newsweek" cover talking about the win factor. i remember people saying george h.w. bush reminds every woman of her first husband. the insults became so bad that somebody had to actually write an op-ed that i still remember, my god 40 years, 30 years later called the george bush that i know. telling the story of how bush alone with a west texas contributor who made a racial slur when nobody else was watching and he desperately...
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reagan and people who loved ronald reagan, love him. i wonder how much of that is the fact he came into office as a celebrity. he had sort of a relationship with the american people through cinema. >> he was also the union president for the screen actors guild and the governor of california. name recognition matters a great deal there. are so many celebrities we have seen. that's why arnold schwarzenegger was the governor of california only because he was a monster successfully actor. but it's far different this time around, because donald trump ain't ronald reagan and he ain't arnold schwarzenegger. he is like a b-list world wrestling type celebrity. he's a reality show star. >> that's absolutely right. >> he doesn't know anything. >> the wrestling analogy is absolutely right. but what trump has which reagan had is performance ability. that's what the celebrities bring to the table most politicians can't do. to give a great speech for a politician is generally very hard. for a celebrity this is easy. >> i'm a standup comedian. i spent
reagan and people who loved ronald reagan, love him. i wonder how much of that is the fact he came into office as a celebrity. he had sort of a relationship with the american people through cinema. >> he was also the union president for the screen actors guild and the governor of california. name recognition matters a great deal there. are so many celebrities we have seen. that's why arnold schwarzenegger was the governor of california only because he was a monster successfully actor. but...
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by comparison, both ronald reagan and bill clinton's approval stood at nearly 60% at this point in their presidencies. can the president make a comeback? this next month is going to be telling. as nbc's first read put it, quote, january presents him with an opportunity to hit the reset button on his second term. either january is the start of his political comeback or it's a missed opportunity and perhaps one of his last. howard fineman is editorial director for the "the huffington post." eugene robinson is a columnist for "the washington post," and both are msnbc political analysts. gene, where does the opportunity lie for the president? >> well, i think there is always opportunity for a president. you're president of the united states, right? so aside from some awful national disaster, why would you ever really have a bad day? you know, you're the guy, and presidents can change the subject. presidents can issue sweeping executive orders. presidents can invade countries, not that that's a great thing that i would advise him to do. i think a president has to approach every new year and e
by comparison, both ronald reagan and bill clinton's approval stood at nearly 60% at this point in their presidencies. can the president make a comeback? this next month is going to be telling. as nbc's first read put it, quote, january presents him with an opportunity to hit the reset button on his second term. either january is the start of his political comeback or it's a missed opportunity and perhaps one of his last. howard fineman is editorial director for the "the huffington...
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this is opposite the virtues of goodness embodied in men like ronald reagan and dwight eisenhower and abraham lincoln and the giants that have sat as members of our party in the seat of the presidency of the united states. >> but that's woulda, coulda, shoulda. he's leading in the polls, he's way ahead of jeb who everybody knows who jeb bush is. everybody knows him. and they choose trump over him in the polls. what do you make of that? >> chris, you have covered american politics for a very long time. you are a historian. >> nothing like this. >> you know that these numbers -- >> hey, steve, nothing like this. >> -- at this moment in time in the polls. we cover this like a thoroughbred horse race. >> i know. >> there's a long way to go. we live in a time when trust has completely collapsed in nearly every institution in the country. people are fed up. they don't think the system's on the level. they don't think the political -- >> trump doesn't either. >> -- on the level. and he is in the tradition of the roman emperors, this is bread and circuses for the masses. >> i start with -- >>
this is opposite the virtues of goodness embodied in men like ronald reagan and dwight eisenhower and abraham lincoln and the giants that have sat as members of our party in the seat of the presidency of the united states. >> but that's woulda, coulda, shoulda. he's leading in the polls, he's way ahead of jeb who everybody knows who jeb bush is. everybody knows him. and they choose trump over him in the polls. what do you make of that? >> chris, you have covered american politics...
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sincerely, ronald reagan. richard sweat, a new hampshire democratic congressman said ronald reagan turned his vote to a yes. he was then attacked by the gun lobby and he lost his re-election campaign in 1994. we know what president reagan would be saying today if he were still with us. he would support diane feinstein's bill just like he did in 1994. the reaganite position is to support feinstein's assault weapons ban. but self proclaimed reaganite newt gingrich has not been talking about the assault weapons ban in the aftermath of the killing of children and women in newtown, connecticut. newt gingrich doesn't blame the easy availability of assault weapons in this country for the murder of 26 at the sandy hook elementary school. he blames this. >> an anti-religious secular bureaucracy, and secular judiciary, seeking to drive god out of public life. >> newt gingrich was one of the members of congress who received that letter in 1994 co-signed by president reagan, asking him to vote yes on a ban on the domestic
sincerely, ronald reagan. richard sweat, a new hampshire democratic congressman said ronald reagan turned his vote to a yes. he was then attacked by the gun lobby and he lost his re-election campaign in 1994. we know what president reagan would be saying today if he were still with us. he would support diane feinstein's bill just like he did in 1994. the reaganite position is to support feinstein's assault weapons ban. but self proclaimed reaganite newt gingrich has not been talking about the...
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he said ronald reagan was transformational. he moved the whole country to accept conservativism, shifted the country to center right. he wanted to be a transformational president. on social issues i would say this week we made a dramatic shift to the center-center left. barack obama transformational? >> well, his administration is certainly transformational. i don't know that he gets all the credit for that. i think the credit has been moving along for 30 40 years toward these more liberal social positions. frankly in reaction to the overreaction of the right of the religious right and the -- beginning with the moral majority. i think he's -- he certainly does get -- it certainly does line up in his column these more progressive positions have occurred under his watch. and this week for heaven's sake has a president ever had a week like this? >> no. the white house is saying that. it's interesting right after the midterms there was this, boy is he a lame duck or dead duck type of conversation when it came to the last two years
he said ronald reagan was transformational. he moved the whole country to accept conservativism, shifted the country to center right. he wanted to be a transformational president. on social issues i would say this week we made a dramatic shift to the center-center left. barack obama transformational? >> well, his administration is certainly transformational. i don't know that he gets all the credit for that. i think the credit has been moving along for 30 40 years toward these more...
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a president ronald reagan or maybe even been a ghon nor ronald reagan. >> so help me god. >> i congratulate you, sir. >> do you think you're more self-confident? >> yes. because i think maybe more people like me. >> and it's easier to be a little more -- >> i'm -- if i think people like me, i -- i'm better. >> you're willing to open up? >> yeah. >> back in 1981 it was the press that opened up. hitting mrs. reagan with a barrage of criticism. >> the first lady spent more than $800,000 fixing up the white house. >> the problem was largely one of timing. mrs. reagan started her lavish redecoration just as her husband start d cutting programs for the poor and just as the country started sliding into recession. for many people this contrast made the first lady look frivolous or even worse, insensitive. >> and there was mrs. reagan take for $35,000 designer dresses which caused some of them to start calling her queen nancy. >> within months she had groan sensitive about even mentioning her clothes. >> the blouse i wore last time. for mrs. thatcher i'm going to wear -- are we still on? >> as she l
a president ronald reagan or maybe even been a ghon nor ronald reagan. >> so help me god. >> i congratulate you, sir. >> do you think you're more self-confident? >> yes. because i think maybe more people like me. >> and it's easier to be a little more -- >> i'm -- if i think people like me, i -- i'm better. >> you're willing to open up? >> yeah. >> back in 1981 it was the press that opened up. hitting mrs. reagan with a barrage of criticism....
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and all i can say about this president, he has the instincts of ronald reagan in many ways. he's an emotional man, but he's also a very smart man. i think he feels that he did the right thing by those children. >> the instincts of ronald reagan. what's graham's angle here? >> well, graham is, along with john mccain and tom cotton and marco rubio and some of these other senators who were praising donald trump for this action from the hawkish wing of the party and they want to see a harder line taken against assad, but they're never going to be satisfied because donald trump is not, as far as i can tell or foresee at this moment, going to push as hard as they would like him to. i mean there was a debate inside this administration before the strike about really what good would it do. there's a recognition, and steve bannon is a part of this wing in the administration, that this is a horribly messy war, a horrid situation, an intractable conflict that the united states is not going to be able to solve by dropping a few tomahawk missiles. and let's not forget, president trump was
and all i can say about this president, he has the instincts of ronald reagan in many ways. he's an emotional man, but he's also a very smart man. i think he feels that he did the right thing by those children. >> the instincts of ronald reagan. what's graham's angle here? >> well, graham is, along with john mccain and tom cotton and marco rubio and some of these other senators who were praising donald trump for this action from the hawkish wing of the party and they want to see a...